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enjoyed the present surroundings so much — the 

 same sort of people who in health are always 

 on the lookout for sickness, and who seem to be 

 afraid to live because at some time or another 

 they will die. There is where a horse generally 

 has the advantage over a man. Horses probably 

 have no idea of death. It might be a satisfaction 

 to car horses if they had, but I do not think it 

 would be a pleasant thought for Fanny. She 

 gets her oats regularly, and, though the time 

 may come when the oats are musty or are not, 

 she doesn't trouble herself with anticipating 

 evil. Let us all try to imitate her. She was 

 in remarkably good spirits to-day. Facing the 

 wind, the steam from her nostrils blowing back 

 upon her face, she was a pretty and unique 

 picture, with her bay body and legs and her 

 silver-gray head. Sometimes a little stray 

 forgotten snow-cloud would come travelling 

 back from the west on its airy journey to over- 

 take the storm that had left it behind. And 

 then for a while we were all white till the wind 

 had blown off the flakes. So cheerily we made 

 our way along through Brewster's and Carmel 

 until we came to Lake Mahopac. 



Sad was the appearance of its great summer 

 hotels, with their closed shutters and barricaded 



